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Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42777, 12 September 1905, Page 2

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PRESS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.] Sydney. Yesterday. A man named Lorie, on bail out of a charge of attempting to shoot his wife near Coonamble, as well as on a charge of cattle stealing, shot at a man named Harris of whom lie was jealous, seriously wounding him. He then went to Quillbone station and shot dead the owner, P. Neech, whose eat le Lorie was accused of stealing. Lorrie is still at. large. Adelaide, Yesterday The Medical Conference carried resolutions affirming that the use,of X Rays, radium, and the Fmsen light should be under the direct supervision •f a medical man, owing to complex and someiimes dangerous symptoms produced by these agents. That ap* plied school hygienics should form a compulsory subject of training for State School teachers. That a system ■>f medical inspectioL of State Schools should be instituted. That the inethi" oul medical profession grant interviews ro the law and on medical maters, in connection with which their r* lames bo allowed to appear. Sydney, This Day. The Mines Department have ordered the Stockton Colliery, to wifht* lraw their men from workings under the sea. Tests prove that there are t oi.iy 80ft of sandstone between the workings and the ocean bed. The Act demands 120£t. 200 men are affected and the output of the colliery s reduced by one half. Melbourne, Yesterday. Constable Scannell, stationed at Sandringham, murdered his wife and three children. .He battered their heads with a pickaxe, shot them with a revolver, and then sh it himself lead. Brooding over imaginary troubles is said to be the cause.